When summer heats up is a great time to be cool and start strategizing how to reduce your family’s 2026 tax bill. Starting early with proactive planning gives you time to make strategic decisions and devise an action plan that could help you keep more profit in your pocket. Our top six strategies include great
Essential Mid-Year Tax Planning for Business Owners
A mid-year tax review is all about proactive planning to optimize your tax situation and identify potential savings. With significant tax provisions potentially changing at the end of 2025, reviewing your business’s financials and tax position now is more important than ever. It gives you time to make necessary adjustments, implement strategies to maximize tax
Spring Cleaning Applies to Your Finances Too!
Spending the time to declutter and organize your finances this spring can help to set you up for financial success for the rest of the year. Gathering and pruning financial documents, tidying up your budget and polishing your portfolio will go a long way to cleaning up the clutter in your financial life. Here are
Top Ten Payroll Mistakes That Will Cost You
Companies often don’t want the risk and overhead of maintaining payroll and HR staff, but are nervous about how to stay compliant. Payroll management is a critical function for businesses of all shapes, sizes, and industries, and it is essential to ensure employees are paid both correctly and on time. Managing payroll doesn’t have to
Tax Advantaged Special Occasion Giving
Spring has sprung and brought with it anniversaries, graduations, weddings, spring birthdays and seasonal holidays, all of which require a gift of sorts, and often times these gifts are monetary. When you make a substantial gift to anyone of cash or property, the IRS takes notice. But the good news is, gifts are excluded from
Short vs Long-Term Capital Gains in Retirement
Taxes directly affect how much of your hard-earned money that you keep, and one of the last things you want to worry about in your retirement years is taxes. A key tax area often overlooked by retirees that deserves your attention is capital gains tax. When making seemingly straightforward financial decisions like selling a stock
Tax Break When Selling a Home
Thinking about selling your home? Your home is considered a capital asset, and as a homeowner, you may be concerned about paying capital gains tax if you do decide to sell. Luckily there is a tax provision known as the “Section 121 Exclusion” that can help you save on taxes following the sale of your
Ten Tips to Getting Your Tax Refund Faster!
It’s the height of tax season and thousands of IRS employees have just been let go, will your refund be delayed? Probably not, the IRS will reallocate workers from other areas to help meet the needs of tax season. Still, put yourself in the best possible position to receive your refund on time with our
Deduction for Medical Expenses
If you have had any medical expenses this year, there may be some relief for you! A deduction exists for medical expenses, and it is often one that taxpayers forget about. Although you will need to itemize on Schedule A to take advantage of this deduction, medical expenses exceeding 7.5% of your AGI (adjusted gross
Schedule K-1 for Partnerships
If you are a partner or shareholder of a firm, you may know that you have to fill out a tax document to report your income, losses, capital gains, dividends, and more for the tax year. This document is the Schedule K-1, and it allows a partner’s earnings to be taxed at an individual rate
